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* [[All There in the Manual]]: Not much about the character personalities are stated in-game, but in the Mother Encyclopedia it says many interesting things about Ninten, Ana, Loid and Teddy that you could never find out just by playing the game. It is in Japanese, but was [[Fan Translation|translated into English by a fan.]]
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: If you're not Japanese and have heard of this game, you probably know that {{spoiler|Giygas is the main villain. It actually isn't revealed ''at all'' until you get the final [[MacGuffin]] at the end of the [[Disc One Final Dungeon]], and most of the plot is just you going around the world to learn a song for an ailing queen who you met after a bunch of weird stuff started happening in your hometown. Even the game guides have no information on Giygas, and he has no official art.}}
* [[Award Bait Song]]:
** "Pollyanna" in its full version (not the 8-bit theme, obviously), which later went on to become the [[Bootstrapped Theme]] for the entire ''MOTHER'' series.
** The Eight Melodies. "[[The Power of Love|Take a melody, simple as can be, give it some words, and sweet harmony. Raise your voices, all day long now love grows strong now, sing a melody of love, ah love.]]" The vocal version even has a [[Cherubic Choir]]!
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Let's just sum up the three main characters as this. Okay, Loid [[Took a Level In Badass|took a while for it to shine through]], but still.
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* [[Black Bead Eyes]]: As in all of the ''MOTHER'' games, though here it can come across as mere technical pragmatism as opposed to a deliberate stylistic choice.
* [[Girl of My Dreams|Boy of My Dreams]]: Ana fell in love with Ninten when she started seeing him in her dreams.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The English translation got quite a few changes as a result of Nintendo's censorship policies at the time. Infamously, blood was edited out of sprites and cigars and knives were removed from the battle sprites of the Crow and Teddy. Crosses and religious text were removed. Holy Loly Mountain had a [[Dub Name Change]] to Mt. Itoi, probably half because of the religious reference and half because, [[Woolseyism|well]], it is a major [[Difficulty Spike]] as well as [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. (Also, to avoid lawsuits, a mention of ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' was changed to ''Super Mario Bros.'') Some stuff got past the radar, like the strip club in Merrysville and doctors saying "go off and ''die'' then" if you refuse their services, though the strip club instance was changed in ''MOTHER 1+2''. The ''Dragon Quest'' reference was also changed to "that game" as opposed to a Mario reference. All of the sprite changes were also in ''MOTHER 1+2''.
** It should be noted that Itoi was quite involved in the localization of this game and every [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerization]] and [[Woolseyism]] that occurred had to have his approval.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: There's a war veteran with a tank in Yucca Desert. If you do a sidequest, you get to ride it, and he warns you to be careful with it because it's his most prized possession. [[Trope Telegraphing|Inevitably]], it breaks, and when you get to Ellay you have to pay him to replace it. Also, in a sidequest that you can do later, Lloyd gets a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment with a tank. What other tank could he possibly get access to? If you do both those sidequests, in order, it's [[Chekhov's Boomerang]].
* [[Cherubic Choir]]: The vocal version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtM4onLQ1I The Eight Melodies]. Also used in the 1989 Japanese [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQUN7QAnMp0 commercial.]
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* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: ...sort of. The music that plays on the character naming screen? It's used as part of the vocal version of "Eight Melodies", the song that {{spoiler|you spend the game collecting, and use to defeat Giygas}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|Even Bad Aliens Love Their Mamas]]: It's Giygas's memories of his adoptive human mother, Maria, that end up defeating him.}}
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: A singing monkey gives you a part of the [[McGuffin]]. Later you get to go in a cave full of monkeys. A majority of them lie to you.
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: In the beginning of the game there is a zoo with a penguin pen. Later in the game you go in a cave full of monkeys (mentioned above) and there is a secret room with a single lost penguin in it. In addition, Ninten's favorite animal is said to be the penguin, which is [[All There in the Manual]].
* [[Everything's Deader with Zombies]]: Zombie mooks pop up time to time. In the early graveyard section of the game and in Rosemary Manor.
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* [[Ghost Town]]: The town Spookane/Halloween after it became infested with monsters and ghosts.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Ana has these.
* [[Global Currency]]:
** Justified as being dollars, and the game mostly taking place entirely in America... though don't ask how Magicant ''also'' takes them.
** The shopkeeper claims to want them just for novelty's sake.
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* [[Guide Dang It]]: Effects of PSI attacks. The game itself doesn't give you any clues on what most of them do. This becomes crucial when you need to figure out which "Healing" skill to use, because unlike in its successors, each level cures only a specific ailment. Plus, Healing Gamma doesn't revive unconscious party members; rather, it cures petrification.
* [[Haunted House]]: Rosemary Manor
* [[Heroic Albino]]: Lloyd, who, despite being 11 years old, has white hair. It is also noteworthy to mention that albinos have poor eyesight, and Loid wears glasses.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: The three R7-robots. The first two can be destroyed only by a tank (and, with a tank, the first one is hopeless for R7037) but, as you are tankless then, R7038 will destroy your party (along with your strongest character - permanently). But Lloyd destroys it - with a tank. {{spoiler|1=When you fight R7038XX, even your new giant robot buddy deals only about 50 points of damage, and only when the robot explodes does R7038XX die. Fortunately, it doesn't try to attack you, it only attacks EVE. So you win, but for EVE, it was hopeless.}}
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Similar to the sequel, almost nobody uses a real weapon. Teddy, who can use a knife, a sword, and eventually a [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]], is the exception.
* [[Inn Security]]: In Spookane/Halloween.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]: EVE
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* [[MacGuffin]]: The Eight Melodies.
* [[Magical Mystery Doors]]: Rosemary Manor
* [[The Maze]]: There are a quite few.
* [[Mental World]]: {{spoiler|Actually Maria's, not Ninten's.}}
* [[Minimalistic Cover Art]]
* [[Moment Killer]]: Right after Ninten and Ana confess their love for each other, Teddy barges in the room and asks the pair why they are blushing. To be fair he does apologize for interrupting but did so because he was hearing odd noises outside, [[It Got Worse|and then a giant robot attacks them]], severely injuring/killing Teddy. Real moodkiller there.
* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: Mrs. Rosemary. Somehow this stayed in the English prototype in the middle of Nintendo's bowdlerization days.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Similar to the sequel, enemies "become quiet", "don't move anymore", etc. [[Justified Trope]] because you're not using real weapons (for the most part) and you're fighting possessed animals and humans, as well as supernatural beings.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Lots and lots of [[Random Encounters]], generally unbalanced enemies, a huge proliferation of [[One-Hit Kill]] moves, and too much [[Forced Level Grinding]] make this the hardest game in the whole series. Itoi even admitted to completely skipping over balancing it out because by the end, everyone was so tired.
* [[No Ending]]: The original release ended with {{spoiler|the aliens, defeated, leaving in their spaceship, and the party just looks at the sky and the credits play in the sky. It didn't tie up any loose ends and left some [[Fridge Horror]] / [[No Endor Holocaust]]. The prototype English version and later the GBA re-release significantly extended the ending.}}
* [[Nostalgic Music Box]]: The ending tune starts and ends with a music box rendition of the Eight Melodies.
* [[Not Drawn to Scale]]: If the surrounding panorama is to be believed, the rooftop of Twinkle Elementary is some 100 stories off the ground - [[Fridge Brilliance|then again, maybe that's just what it looks like to Ninten...]]
* [[Ominous Music Box Tune]]: The first of the 8 Melodies is a music box hidden in Ninten's sister's formerly possessed naked baby doll.
* [[Outside the Box Tactic]]: In a convention to be continued throughout the series, the [[Final Boss]] {{spoiler|Giegue}} cannot be defeated by ordinary methods. You must {{spoiler|sing Queen Mary's song eleven times to subdue him.}}
* [[Palette Swap]]: As an early RPG, nearly everywhere. Some palette swaps at least slightly modify the sprites by overlaying new graphics to make them seem different, like adding a collar to the wolf to make it a stray dog.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]:
** Teddy is an orphan, and Ninten's father doesn't appear until the ending. And only in the unreleased English version and the [[Compilation Rerelease]].
** Also, all the parents of Youngtown being abducted by the aliens.
** Also also, Loid's parents are essentially handwaved. His father shows up in/as a trashcan at a remote location in a swamp nowhere near where Loid goes to school, and all he does is ask the player's name - no story exposition of even a minor variety.
*** However, in the novel adaption, his father is said to be in the swamp because he is looking for a special plant to cure a fatal illness Lloyd's mother has, and that appears to be another reason Lloyd joins Ninten.
* [[Poltergeist]]: At the start of the game one of these attack your house.
* [[The Power of Love]] / [[The Power of Rock]]:
** {{spoiler|Singing Maria's lullaby to Giygas is what defeats him. And it doesn't just defeat him: in ''[[Earthbound]]'', it is found that it drove him absolutely insane.}}
** After reading a bit of description, it seems there's a bit more to it than that. {{spoiler|Giygas apparently still harbored affection toward Maria, but was basically forced to detach from her and invade the Earth as per his people's orders. Considering Maria basically raised the poor little guy since he was a baby, any reminders of her would create something of a conflict of interest, and make attacking her people (or more specifically, one of her descendants) quite a bit harder, don't you think?}}
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** The 8-bit version of the song is, but the soundtrack version has a typical romantic adult contemporary feel to it, but with no lyrics.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]:
** Roid/Loid/Lloyd. The first was the official Romanization in Japan, the prototype used the second, and ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' uses the third.
** Also shown by {{spoiler|the main villain - his name is written "giigu" in katakana, written as "Giegue" in the localization, and is finally shown to actually be "Gyiyg" in the sequel. Eventually, Nintendo just made up a new English name for him ("Giygas"). But before that, he was apparently going to be called ''Geek.''}}
* [[Spinning Out of Here]]: The teleport spell is executed by having the character move around while accelerating rapidly before zooming off; because colliding with anything stops the teleport, the better the player is at moving in a small circle, the more places he or she can teleport from.
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